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It's a good start, now let's keep that momentum with some new rail lines. Maybe even passenger rail. Come on.

Can we get a rail that isn't absurdly expensive so that only old people will take it for Olde time trainy fun, and that does not have freight share the tracks and take priority? Oh and if it rains, maybe the tracks are under water... And actual useful internet, and decent food options?

For freight - awesome. But as long as Amtrak is "twice the price of flying, and five times as long!" it's never going to be able to compete.

As a resident of the northeast: this is nice on the face of it, but that’s a comically small amount of money to address a decades-long failure to invest in mass transit infrastructure.

We give billions of taxpayer money each year to build and maintain roadways for cars, while letting rail companies mostly depend on profits to do so with rail. It is no wonder which has won.

Are train crashes a money problem? I thought it was a shitty ownership problem?

Funding that's sorely needed. Next we need that railway safety bill to get through the Senate! Get those Republicans out of the way!

Let’s have the government bail out corporations again! What will the poor shareholders do if there investments sink. Who cares about the trash American living paycheck to paycheck.

Privatize the profits and socialize the losses. The company earnings is the rightful property of shareholders and company losses is a responsibility that society must shoulder. In other words, America only cares about our corporate overlords. They should have been investing in there infrastructure from the beginning and should be allowed to fail.

If the USA keeps trying we might even become as advanced as Japan, most of Europe, and oddly enough, China. They've been able to build public transport. Zero reason we can't except for the fact we keep electing moronic conservatives.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

“These projects will make American rail safer, more reliable, and more resilient, delivering tangible benefits to dozens of communities where railroads are located, and strengthening supply chains for the entire country,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement.

The money is funding 70 projects in 35 states and Washington, D.C. Railroad safety has become a key concern nationwide ever since a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed and caught fire in East Palestine, Ohio, in February.

President Joe Biden has ordered federal agencies to hold the train’s operator Norfolk Southern accountable for the crash, but a package of proposed rail safety reforms has stalled in the Senate where the bill is still awaiting a vote.

“Restoring passenger rail service will create jobs, improve quality of life, and offer a convenient travel option for tourists, contributing to our region’s economic growth and vitality.”

That 17-year journey has been filled with obstacles and frustration — but also moments of joy, where local champions and national advocates were able to come together around the vision of a more connected Gulf Coast region,” Rail Passengers Association President & CEO Jim Mathews said.

In one of the biggest other grants, the Palouse River & Coulee City Railroad in Washington state will get $72.8 million to upgrade the track and related infrastructure to allow that rail line to handle modern 286,000-pound railcars.

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This is like $1,498,600,000,000 too little.

This is great news, but I am sure both Republicans and people on the left will find some reason to complain about this. They always do. Being in the middle seems to draw fire from all sides.